>From a quick glance at that article, the only question seems to be whether the author is deliberately mis-representing his source or if he's just misreading them. My guess is the former, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt...
His referenced source states that "*Over the year, the number of fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) subscriptions surpassed DSL*", which he has turned into "... *exceeding all copper (ADSL and FTTN) connections (300 million, in total)*". However this fails to take into account other technologies like HFC which account for a massive number of FTTN deployments. The original source clearly stated it was referring to DSL technologies only. He also happily quotes another source that "*FTTP connections increased by 77% in 2016*" but fails to point out that 89%of the growth in the past 6 months had come from a single country - China. (Which doesn't make his quote wrong, but does obviously change the implied conclusion significantly) His claim that "*On the other hand, network operators such as Verizon and AT&T are taking up some of the FTTP slack left by Google.*" is interesting, given that Verizon has just started deploying FTTP in Boston - the first city it's added in around 7 years! (AT&T on the other hand is actually doing some FTTP, but they are starting from a base of zero) I stopped reading at that point... Scott On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:04 PM, David Boxall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/09/2017 11:52 AM, Scott Howard wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 6:02 PM, David Boxall <[email protected] <mailto: >> [email protected]>>wrote: >> >> Globally, the majority of connections are now through FTTP. >> >> >> I presume Mr Tucker has numbers to back that up? ... >> >> The article referenced by the New Daily is at: > <http://telsoc.org/ajtde/2017-03-v5-n1/a94> > > -- > David Boxall | When a distinguished but elderly > | scientist states that something is > http://david.boxall.id.au | possible, he is almost certainly > | right. When he states that > | something is impossible, he is > | very probably wrong. > --Arthur C. Clarke > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
